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Little Stories for a Book of Knowledge, No. 1

One of my intentions for my pagework this year is to create what I am calling a Book of Knowledge. It's for my grandpeople when they get older. Sort of like the blankies I made for them before they were born. I'll be adding pages, hopefully once a week, and intend to put them here. If you want to suggest other images or give me help in trying to get across my idea on each page, I would love it. This one is about how changes and chance happen to us but how choices also shape who we make of ourselves.Blankies Story

The butterfly’s changes are set by nature and by chance.and so are ours. Each
of us is shaped by what we’ve received at our birth and by the the chance events that
seem to find us. Yet, as human beings something else
creates our path, determines how we evolve and where we go next.
We have the possibility of choice and the responsibility to know our own
self well enough to choose well.
We cannot avoiding choosing. Each day, each hour
we choose our life by the
tiny decisions we make.
Do this, do that,
act kind, create beauty,
study, eat, take a nap.
Watch the butterfly,
weed the yard.
Whichever choice
you make, make it
true to you as you
are now.

Anna has new word art for this weekend…..GROW WordART No1
needless to say….I love it all.

You know what I love about these pages that you make for your grandpeople? That they will really, truly and deeply know you. Even though you're right in front of them so much of the time, your writings go deeper than a play date could.
They will surely cherish all of them
This page is lovely, Patricia.

Lovely - A wonderful idea for your little people. I was so interested to read your comments on my page (thank you), and then read this one and I wanted to tell you that as I was writing mine (and bewailing my lack of choice about some aspects of my life) I had this thought too, that sometimes we are left only with the choice of how we will respond to the circumstances that are thrust upon us. And while we do, and must, react at times with grief and anger and resentment, and while these emotions are never completely gone from our lives, we can also choose to continue to live our circumstances with truth and grace and beauty and not in bitterness. I debated whether to include that thought, but decided it was really a different story. Thank you for writing it down here.